I certify that the bearer—Comrade Louise Bryant (Louise Bryant), an American communist, widow of Comrade John Reed, member of the Executive Committee of the Comintern.

I earnestly request that party and Soviet institutions provide every possible assistance to Comrade Louise Bryant.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

in the journal

First published in 1957

"Foreign Literature" No. 11

Printed from the manuscript